 CHA Personnel
Weekly Class Instructors
Daksha Baumann, Yoga
Sally Clinton, Yoga
Silvana Cuello, Salsa
Rebecca Rose Tousignant, Yoga
Practitioners at CHA Center
Sally Clinton: Yoga, Ayurveda & Breathwork
Betsy Duncombe: Counseling, Psychotherapy, Yoga
Jean Hendrick: Life Coaching
Bios
Daksha Baumann
“I look past the mid-century of my life over years filled with an aggregate of educational trainings, jobs, passionate interests, physical breakdowns and healings; the usual mix of a woman’s life. In 1974 I stepped through the door of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in Salt Lake City curious to find out what yoga was all about. After that introduction I continued to make yoga part of my life as I completed college studies, traveled about the west, adventured in a variety of jobs including cook, wild seed gatherer, river runner, tree planter, teacher, census worker, house painter, gardener and married and grew a family. I completed two teacher trainings, the first at Kripalu where I also trained in the Polarity Process, and more recently in 2005 at the Nosara Yoga Institute. The Self-Awakening approach taught at Nosara was a wonderful match for me and I wanted to offer the same benefits to others to I began to teach.
For me yoga is an answer to the current discombobulating of our planet. The healing balance offered by the life practice of yoga, reflected in each individual, can be transmitted out into the world in innumerable ways.
My sessions: a mix of classic asanas, pranayam, meditation, vinyasa flow, and restorative poses, can help lead one deep into the home of the body.”
Sally Clinton
Sally Clinton began her journey with yoga and the yogic lifestyle as a teenager over 25 years ago as she began to explore metaphysics, spirituality, and conscious living that grew out of a deep reverence for Life. Her classes provide a fluid, meditative, heart-centered practice that offers students an embodied experience of yoga, balanced with detailed alignment principles, spiritual teachings, and the practical application of yoga to everyday life. Having worked with people of all ages and various physical abilities for over a decade, Sally provides a safe environment in which to meet both total beginners and experienced students. Sally completed the Basic and Professional trainings at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health and has studied with many internationally recognized teachers from the Iyengar, Anusara, Ashtanga & Kripalu traditions. Sally is also a Certified Breathwork Facilitator as well as an Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant and Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist with certification through the Kripalu School of Ayurveda. She has spent 5 months studying in India, which includes studies of the Ashtanga Primary Series with Sri Pattabhi Jois in Mysore, and classes at the Ramamani Memorial Iyengar Institute in Pune, India. In 2006 she completed a Clinical Ayurvedic Studies program in Pune, India with world-renowned Ayurvedic physician, Dr. Vasant Lad through the wonderful support of her friends and local community. Through this support and through a commitment to Karma Yoga (selfless service) throughout her life, she has created The Community Scholarship Program to help make Yoga & Ayurveda available to all people regardless of financial means.
Sally has shared her love of yoga with others through teaching on the Blue Hill peninsula and surrounding communities since 1997. She works with individuals through her practice, Art of Living Well, using Yoga therapy, Ayurveda, Breathwork, Ayurvedic Yoga Bodywork, EFT and other tools to support each individual in their unique journey of self-awareness, health, and healing. Sally happily lives with her husband, Gene, their little dog, Moses, and sweet spirit-dog, Paix, in Brooksville, Maine. www.yogawithsally.com or www.artoflivingwell.info
Silvana Cuello
Elizabeth (Betsy) Duncombe
"I am both a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), and a yoga teacher. The focus of my practice is body-mind-spirit integration in the treatment of trauma, anxiety, depression, addictions, or any other of our so-called mental health disorders. While trained in and drawing from a range of traditional psychotherapies, my leaning is toward "mindfulness" based work (Masters in Social Work & Mental Health, Universities of Hawaii and Maine; clinical licensure State of Maine). When appropriate, I weave in breath and yoga-based healing techniques which I have studied for twenty-five years as a yoga teacher (Intensive/Teacher Training Programs with Donald Moyer, Manouso Manos and others around San Francisco and Maui). I bring to my current therapy practice many years experience counseling and teaching yoga/meditation to adults and adolescents in prisons and in communities in Hawaii, California, Costa Rica and in Maine (where I developed, researched and published a 'Free Inside' program for inmates in many prisons). Finally, I am proud mama of artistic twenty-two- and fourteen-year-old girls, happy wife of a free spirited guy, and honored friend of two dogs, two horses and a cat. Sliding scale fees and a number of insurances, including Mainecare and Medicare, are welcomed."
Rebecca Rose Tousignant
Rebecca Rose Tousignant is a certified yoga instructor who wholeheartedly believes in the yoga, breath, meditation, and energy work as tools for transformation and empowerment. She began studying yoga at a young age alongside her mother, and feels blessed to have been taught such amazing tools at such a young age. She became certified through Frog Pond Yoga Teacher Training in Massachusetts in 2003with her first teacher Diane Featherstone and has been teaching and studying consistently ever since. In 2006 Rebecca studied with Shakta Kaur Khalsa and became certified in teaching Radiant Child Yoga, a Kundalini approach to teaching yoga to children.
Rebecca has integrated her skills and training of teaching yoga, her intuition and wisdom gained from becoming a mother, and her work as a childbirth doula to focus on teaching pre and post natal yoga. Sharing yoga with women in pregnancy and with children beginning in the womb and up through childhood has become a true passion for Rebecca. Her 3 year old daughter Kaiya Ruth assists in teaching her children’s yoga class. It is Rebecca’s vision to help make yoga more accessible on a family level within the community.
Rebecca’s classes are rhythmic, nourishing, and intentional. She invites and guides all who attend her classes to truly drop deep into their center, where all healing begins. Rebecca believes that yoga is a powerful practice which yokes, or brings into wholeness, our body, mind, and spirit. When we create the space within our lives to still the mind and bring awareness to our inner landscape, we are able to access infinite potential within ourselves and also extend out into the world as more peaceful beings.
With this deep knowing and reverence for the practice of yoga, Rebecca is passionate about witnessing others experience such potential within themselves.
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